AMD CEO Says Work Underway on Atom Smasher
AMD CEO Says Work Underway on Atom Smasher
Posted 06/09/2009 at 11:31am
| by Paul Lilly
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Fueled in large part by the continued demand for netbooks, Intel's Atom platform has been a runaway success, spurring competition from Nvidia (Ion) and VIA (Nano) in the low power CPU market. Get ready to add AMD to that list, who, according to CEO Dirk Meyer, is developing a platform of its own that will boast even lower power, more robust functionality, and a lower price than Atom.
Sounds like the perfect recipe for a competing netbook platform, right? Not so, says Meyer, who made it a point to reiterate the company's new platform will be aimed at notebooks. Moreover, Meyer predicted that the term netbook will go the way of the dodo as the line between netbooks and notebooks continues to blur.
No word yet on price, availability, or other specifics, except that samples of the new platform are expected to fall into partners' hands sometime in 2010.
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Techrocket9
June 09, 2009 at 12:44pm
Quick! Paul, trademark it and sell it to AMD for a fortune. Split profits 50/50. Atom Smasher... what a great idea! Funny too.
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